On the other side, exactly the same as here, most architectural styles should be like this.

The only difference is that at the end of the corridor on the other side, there is a painting on the wall of a room. This room is not big, but the painting is not small, occupying most of the space of a wall. There are two rows of bookshelves around it, several tables and chairs on the ground, and a carpet under the feet. Even after so many years, it is still very soft when you step on it.

Lu Yuan and the other two looked around for a few times, but there was no clue, so they finally stayed in front of the painting.

The painting shows an old man sitting in a wheelchair and behind the old man, a couple standing, looking about 40 years old. Next to the old man, there are two small children squatting, looking 10 years old. The faces of the five people are filled with bright smiles. As for the background of the painting, it is the old house, but it is only during the day. The house looks quite grand and not as gloomy as it is now.

Lu Yuan stared at the painting and asked after a while: "This is your family, right?"

Sugiki Kazuo nodded: "Yes, the old man in the middle is my grandfather, and the one behind is my parents."

"Then the two kids in front are you and your brother."

"Yes, I'm on the left and my brother on the right. We're only one year apart."

Lu Yuan's eyes fell on the smile of the family.

"It seems that your family had a good relationship decades ago," said Lu Yuan.

Sugi Kazuo hesitated for a moment, as if he didn't really want to recall what happened a long time ago, but in the end he took over the topic.

"It's okay, my grandfather was still there at that time. In my memory, life was still very happy at that time. But a few years later, my grandfather passed away. A few years later, my mother left us because of a traffic accident. After that, only my father and I were brothers left. The successive departure of my relatives made my father's personality silent. He also made him more and more strict with me and Yuji... And in the end, it should be Yuji's expectations more in line with his expectations..."

After these words, Shanmu Jun was silent. Lu Yuan nodded indifferently, probably also learned about the history of this family.

"Okay, let's go to the second floor to have a look."

Lu Yuan said, then turned around and left the study room. The three of them returned to the hall again, preparing to head from the stairs toward the second floor.

However, just as Xiaolan and Sugiki Ichio had turned around and stepped onto the steps, they realized that Lu Yuan seemed to be in a daze in front of the stairs. He shone the floor with a flashlight, lowering his head, and didn't know what he was doing?

"Uh, Mr. Lu Yuan, what's wrong?" Xiaolan waited for a while and found that Lu Yuan was still stunned, so she asked.

Lu Yuan raised his head, his eyes full of doubt, and he murmured: "Not?!"

This sentence was like a question, or a conversation with herself, which made Xiaolan very confused: "What's gone?"

"Battery." Lu Yuan replied again.

"Hey?" Xiaolan was stunned: "But... Lu Yuanjun's flashlight is still on. The battery has just been replaced and it is not used up so quickly."

Unexpectedly, Lu Yuan shook his head: "It's not that this battery is the previous set of batteries." As he said that, Lu Yuan took a look at his feet: "Just now, after I changed the battery, I still left the two batteries that were out of power here, but now... it's gone." Lu Yuan said, as if he was in a certain kind of contemplation again.

"This..." Xiaolan seemed a little uncomfortable after hearing this: "Haha, can it be... Lu Yuanjun remembered it wrongly."

Although it is a very small thing to lose the battery, but... in this whole house, there are only three of them, how can the battery be gone if it is gone?

"Yes, right, maybe I've gotten away, haha." Sugiki Ichio came over with a little uneasy and said.

However, Lu Yuan shook his head and pointed to the carpet on the ground: "This is a carpet, it's hard to roll the battery by itself. Besides, I'm not blind, there is no battery around."

As I said before, Lu Yuan’s eyesight is now extraordinary, so he just took a flashlight and swiped around and found that there was no battery at all.

"So, something took the battery away, or the battery suddenly disappeared silently like those missing people." Lu Yuan didn't care about the other two people's thoughts, because he knew that this was the case.

"But...but how is this possible?!" Xiaolan was also a little anxious. He subconsciously wanted to find a reason to explain this phenomenon.

"It's all happening, what's impossible." Lu Yuan said, and then he gave up and continued to think about this question: "Let's go, go upstairs!"

"Okay... OK!" Xiaolan and Shanmujun responded quickly, and then walked upstairs.

After such a thing, the old house was even more creepy. Lu Yuan accelerated his pace and quickly searched every room on the second floor, then went straight to the third floor. The speed could be said to be like flying sand and rocks. Xiaolan and Shanmujun were trembling and had to trot to keep up with Lu Yuan.

Of course, although Lu Yuan was fast, he did not fall into any corner. When he searched the second and third floors and returned to the middle stairs, he could be sure that there was absolutely no trace of people living here. In other words, the idea of ​​hiding a murderer here before was not valid.

Moreover, along the way, Lu Yuan's mobile phone was on, and he was looking for a place with poor signal because if he found the location of the signal that was not connected, maybe it would be very close to the location of the missing person.

But unexpectedly, the signal in this old house was so good, and the signal in the entire building was full.

Now, the three of them lost their direction at all.

Of course, while the incident was in a bottleneck, the atmosphere seemed to have eased a little. After all, all the places were searched and confirmed that no one else was hiding here, which made everyone's uneasiness slightly fade.

As for the disappearing battery and the green light spots that once appeared, they seemed to be forcibly stopped thinking about it. After all, I didn’t see anything terrible. People still believe in science before they really saw something too incredible.

"What should I do? I don't seem to find any useful clues." Xiaolan couldn't help but worry.

"Yes, I don't have any clues, but I can actually imagine it, because if there was something special, then he would have discovered it long ago when you and Officer Megu came. He was a veteran." Lu Yuan pinched his chin and said, "By the way, what was it like when Officer Megu disappeared? Can you try to retell it?"

Xiaolan nodded: "At that time, Officer Memu and I were looking for my father and Conan everywhere in this house, but we searched separately. At that time, I was on the second floor and he was on the first floor. I searched on the second floor for about 5 minutes, but I found nothing, so I wanted to go downstairs to find Officer Memu, but he disappeared."

"Yeah." Lu Yuan pondered for a moment, then said: "Sukaki, what did Mr. Maori and Conan look like when they disappeared? Can you repeat it?"

"Shanmujun..."
Chapter completed!